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Monthly Video Game Geek review Contest - February 2012 Category: Sequels
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This is the geeklist for the February 2012 Video Game Geek Review Contest!

CLOSED FOR ENTRIES
CLOSED FOR VOTING

WINNERS ANNOUNCED

Full contest rules (and subscription thread) are here. But the gist of it is:
1) write a review that fits the current category,
2) post it to this geeklist by the 23rd February 2012,
3) vote in the poll, and then
4) all entrants: 2 in addition to geekgold earned via geekmod!
1st place: 40bag and an exclusive microbadge: mb
2nd place: 20bag
3rd place: 10bag

This month's category is SEQUELS. Review any game that is part of a series that isn't the first. Submissions are due by 2/23/2012 10:00 PM GMT, at which point a week-long voting period will begin. Good luck!

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This months 1st place goes to
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Poll: February Video Game Geek review Contest - VOTING
After reading this months reviews please award points to the ones you like. You may vote on as many or as few reviews as you want but you may only vote for each review once.
Choose one game for each Rank
1st = 4 points, 2nd = 3 points, 3rd = 2 points, 4th = 1 point
  1st (4 points) 2nd (3 points) 3rd (2 points) 4th (1 point) Vote Count
A(nother) Warrior Worth A Thousand! 33.3% (1) 33.3% (1) 0.0% (0) 33.3% (1) 3
The pinnacle of old-school shooters - still good, or not so much? 33.3% (1) 66.7% (2) 0.0% (0) 0.0% (0) 3
A SNES Game Review: Super Castlevania IV 16.7% (1) 50.0% (3) 16.7% (1) 16.7% (1) 6
Assasin's Creed: Revelations - A Useless Sequel 40.0% (2) 20.0% (1) 20.0% (1) 20.0% (1) 5
Klingon Academy review by Abreu 25.0% (1) 25.0% (1) 0.0% (0) 50.0% (2) 4
Wilson! 0.0% (0) 25.0% (1) 75.0% (3) 0.0% (0) 4
Anno 2070 - Clear Up Your Schedule Before Playing This! 20.0% (1) 40.0% (2) 20.0% (1) 20.0% (1) 5
Characters and Personal Experience Make KotOR 2 an Experience Worth Having 0.0% (0) 66.7% (2) 33.3% (1) 0.0% (0) 3
Take me out to the black: a compilation review of the best plug-ins, expansions, and total conversions for Escape Velocity Nova 20.0% (1) 40.0% (2) 20.0% (1) 20.0% (1) 5
Saints Row The Third - Surprise Hit of the Year 33.3% (1) 33.3% (1) 0.0% (0) 33.3% (1) 3
What have they done?? 33.3% (2) 33.3% (2) 16.7% (1) 16.7% (1) 6
Total Voters 11
This poll is now closed.   11 answers
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Closes: Fri Mar 2, 2012 6:00 am
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2. Video Game: Assassin's Creed: Revelations [Average Rating:7.92 Overall Rank:673]
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AC:R review
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Cheers Ken.
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3. Video Game: Escape Velocity Nova [Average Rating:7.61 Overall Rank:1713]
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Here's my submission! You may have heard me mention Escape Velocity Nova on VGG once or twice...

Take me out to the black: a compilation review of the best plug-ins, expansions, and total conversions for Escape Velocity Nova
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Very nice.
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4. Video Game: Star Trek: Klingon Academy [Average Rating:9.75 Unranked]
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Well, here it is, my third review ever, and my first entry in contests.
I hope you all enjoy it.

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Welcome. May it be the first of many.
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TMVM wrote:
Welcome. May it be the first of many.


More reviews is one of my goals in VGG for 2012.
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5. Video Game: Anno 2070 [Average Rating:8.38 Overall Rank:1478]
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Here is my first entry, great game if you like the series at all:

Anno 2070 Review
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Hurrah
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6. Video Game: Dynasty Warriors 5 [Average Rating:8.04 Overall Rank:1305]
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So far, I consider this to be the best game in the series. I'll have to play more Dynasty Warriors 6 before I can make that claim confidently, however.

http://www.videogamegeek.com/thread/760440/another-warrior-w...
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I've never played any of these. I might have to track one of them down now.
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7. Video Game: Saints Row: The Third [Average Rating:8.25 Overall Rank:412]
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This was my surprise hit of 2011 and I had to review it!

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This looks like good silly fun
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8. Video Game: Quake II [Average Rating:7.20 Overall Rank:458]
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My review for this oldie is here.
http://boardgamegeek.com/article/8474820

Have a good read!
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Thanks for the entry Krzysztof.
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9. Video Game: Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II - The Sith Lords [Average Rating:7.64 Overall Rank:197]
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Characters and Personal Experience Make KotOR 2 an Experience Worth Having
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Welcome to the comp. Thanks for entering your first review.
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Thanks for the welcome. I love sequels.
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10. Video Game: Age of Empires III [Average Rating:7.27 Overall Rank:559]
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Placeholder item for my entry which is currently in geekmod.

...And here it is
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You guys are in luck. Because I won last month, I can't enter this month. But if I could've entered, this would've been my review.

(Please exclude from voting)
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Thanks for doing the review anyway. You still get the 2gg for doing so even if you aren't in the voting.
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12. Video Game: The Sims 2: Castaway [Average Rating:4.80 Overall Rank:3977]
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Okay, why would anyone review a Sims game, right. Well, I think this one's worthy of it, so here it is:

"Wilson!"
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13. Video Game: Super Castlevania IV [Average Rating:7.44 Overall Rank:461]
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Yay, perfect!
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Looking at these stars suddenly dwarfed my own troubles and all the gravities of terrestrial life. I thought of their unfathomable distance, and the slow inevitable drift of their movements out of the unknown past into the unknown future. H.G. Wells
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I didn't bother to do the addition...
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so.... about this prize ...? whistle
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wizcreations wrote:
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Hmmmm. The prizes should have been awarded. Has anyone received them yet? Life might have held them up a bit. I'll check.
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I just looked at my recent geekgold transactions and it has not come through for me yet.
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